I copy a .claude/CLAUDE.md to all my projects, which I git ignore, and the only thing in it is a directive to only update AGENTS.md.

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Sha1rholder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Whenever you mention “CLAUDE.md” anywhere in your repo, Anthropic has achieved its goal. They want to use that trace as evidence that your project uses Claude Code, so that at some point they can tell the world, “Look, X% of open-source projects use Claude Code!” Maybe right before IPO.

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postalcoder 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with CC's other features like the lazy loading of CLAUDE.md files in subdirectories.

	▲	threecheese 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use something like this in every project and it has no issues that I’m aware of - the file has one line: an include (@). Maybe gitignoring it is an issue, given that Claude tries to honor it?